Re: running Maxima from Octave

[Doug Stewart]

>> a=maximab('888','BFLOAT(\%%PI)','+','0')
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\%' -- converting to `%'
ans = 0
a = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230
7816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582
2317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288
1097566593344612847564823378678316527120190914564856692346034861045432
6648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715
36436789259036001133053054882046652138414695194151160943305727036575959
19530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279
381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798609437027
705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427
577896091736371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235420
199561121290219608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983729780
499510597317328160963185950244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311
8817101000313783875288658753320838142059B0
>>

What is the correct way of getting a % inside of quotes?
The warning comes from the following line in maximab.m

fprintf(fid,'stringout("Max1.txt", \%%);\n');

Doug Stewart



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